“This is the people's house, they have defiled their own house! It saddens me ” , gets carried away Marcel Moinard, the mayor of Amuré, a village in Deux-Sèvres located in the Marais poitevin. On July 18, in the morning, this elected representative discovered a graffiti drawn in red letters on the facade of the town hall: “No to the basins” . The storefront was also smeared with white paint. Result: 5,000 euros in repair, two complaints lodged with the gendarmerie and DNA samples taken in the wake.
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This is because the case is taken seriously: these degradations were claimed, in a letter found on the spot, by “the masked newts”. Unknown until then in the swamp, this mysterious small group ensures that "from today, (they) abandoned (their) pacifist dogma". These "masked newts" claim to have targeted the town hall of Amuré "as a symbol representing power" and as a village "which will host the largest of these basins".
I'm afraid of a clash between irrigators and opponents, that a tragedy will happen in the area. It can overflow at any time ...
Marcel Moinard, mayor of AmuréA substitute reserve - its name
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